Famous Deaths in October 1937

  • Oct 9 August de Boeck, composer, dies at 72
  • Oct 9 George August Alexander Alting von Geusau, Dutch Minister of war (1918-20), dies at 73
  • Oct 15 James Marcus, American actor (The Eagle, The Lonely Trail), dies from a heart attack at 70
  • Oct 16 Jean de Brunhoff, French children's book author (Babar the Elephant), dies at 37
  • Oct 19 Betty Carver, wife of English WWII Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, dies

Person of interestErnest Rutherford

Oct 19 Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist (Nobel Prize 1908), dies at 66

Scientist Ernest Rutherford
Scientist
Ernest Rutherford
  • Oct 26 Józef Dowbór-Muśnicki, Polish general, serving with the Imperial Russian and then Polish armies, dies at 70